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Fostering Teacher-Student-Parent Relationships Through Hands-On Learning: A No Screen Approach to Early Literacy (108941)
Session: On Demand
Room: Virtual Poster Presentation
Presentation Type:Virtual Poster Presentation
This multi-case study explores the impacts of a no screen approach to direct literacy instruction, while utilizing the science of reading approach, in classrooms with no screen, hands-on, game supplements at home. While there are digital literacy tools arriving and flooding preschool and elementary classrooms, emerging/early literacy skills deserve a distraction free and personal connection to students. This framework, relational pedagogy, has the utmost importance within classrooms, especially for younger students whose brains are rapidly developing and these meaningful connections with others, and not a screen, can foster wellbeing, care, and empathy (Noddings, 2013; Immordino-Yang, 2016).
Thus, this study utilized a mixed method approach within an urban school district in Northeast United States with summative student literacy assessment data obtained by teachers and combined that data with descriptive findings from semi-structured teacher and family interviews and used local and national data of neighboring school districts for comparison. The data was then analyzed utilizing categorized themes and the results demonstrated a positive correlation between nonuse of screen and reading abilities, even just after the 12-week cycle as compared with neighboring district and even national data. The results produced themes of stronger school-home partnership, communication, and connectedness to others. These results also suggest that a screen-free, or even low-tech, but high-touch approach can better equip students to stay on grade level, or even above grade level for the rest of their elementary experience and maintain these benefits well after their elementary years (Kern & Friedman, 2008; Morgan et al., 2008).
Authors:
Julie Banfer, Touro University, United States
About the Presenter(s)
Dr Julie Banfer is a University Assistant Professor/Lecturer at Touro University in United States
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